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Today is Tuesday, Oct. 13, the 286th day of 2015. There are 79 days left in the year.

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A.D. 54: Roman Emperor Claudius I dies, poisoned apparently at the behest of his wife, Agrippina.

1775: The U.S. Navy had its origins as the Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet.

1792: The cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, is laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.

1843: The Jewish organization B’nai B’rith is founded in New York City.

1932: President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes lay the cornerstone for the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington.

1957: CBS-TV broadcasts “The Edsel Show,” a one-hour live special starring Bing Crosby designed to promote the new, ill-fated Ford automobile. (It was the first special to use videotape technology to delay the broadcast to the West Coast.)

1960: John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon have the third televised debate of their presidential campaign (Nixon was in Los Angeles, Kennedy in New York).

1972: A Uruguayan chartered flight carrying 45 people crashes in the Andes; survivors resort to feeding off the remains of some of the dead in order to stay alive until they were rescued more than two months later.

1981: Voters in Egypt participate in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.

1990: Le Duc Tho, co-founder of the Vietnamese Communist Party, dies in Hanoi a day before his 79th birthday.

2005: British playwright Harold Pinter wins the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature.

2014: President Barack Obama huddles with some of his senior national security aides and with top administration health officials for the latest assessment on the government’s response to Ebola in the aftermath of a Dallas nurse’s contracting the disease.

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1990: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Poland, apologizes to Congress for describing Congress as “a house of prostitutes” and the best Congress that money can buy” during the five minutes he was given to argue for his amendment making a 10 percent cut in a $300-million defense appropriations bill.

The Crestview Local School District accepts $100,000 in video equipment from Whittle Communications of Knoxville, Tenn., in exchange for the district showing a 12-minute daily current affairs broadcast provided by Whittle. Each broadcast contains two minutes of commercials.

A brewery that the Miller Brewing Co. completed in Trenton, Ohio, in 1983 but never put into operation because of sagging sales will begin producing beer by July, the company announces.

1975: Mercer County Judge John Q. Stranahan orders striking Sharon city schoolteachers to return to work immediately. Some 240 teachers have been on strike for six weeks.

Henry Harper, 58, dies of a gunshot wound suffered at a Cleveland Street house where he confront his wife and the man accused of shoot him.

Philip “Fleegle” Mainer, Youngstown police character whose car was found in Campbell in October 1974, was killed because he was an informant about the Mafia’s pornography interests, the New York Times reports.

1965: The East Ohio Gas Co. offers two full-tuition scholarships worth about $5,000 to Northeast Ohio seniors for general study or engineering fields.

W.R. Timkin, president of Canton’s Timkin Roller Bearing Co. announces a proposed $427 million expansion and improvement program, probably the largest in the company’s history.

Advertisement: The speculation is over. The Toronado is here, at five area Oldsmobile dealers: Stackhouse in Youngstown, Downtown Motor Sales in Warren, Austintown Auto Service in Austintown, Stiver Motors in Hubbard and Sherwood Oldsmobile, Niles.

1940: Some 20,000 Youngstowners line West Federal Street for a Columbus Day parade.

Negotiations are underway for turning the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp.’s long-idle Mercer works at Farrell, Pa., into a plant for filling national defense orders.

Tom Mix, circus and movie hero, who has appeared in Youngstown, dies when his green Cord sports car overturns while traveling 80 mph through a national desert.